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Ptychadena filwoha Largen, 1997

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ptychadenidae > Genus: Ptychadena

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Ptychadena filwoha Largen, 1997, Tropical Zool., 10: 234. Holotype: BMNH 1974.2842, by original designation. Type locality: "Filwoha, Awash National Park, Shoa, Ethiopia (09° 00′ N 39° 58′ E, altitude 800 m)".

English Names

Hot Springs Grass Frog (Largen and Spawls, 2010, Amph. Rept. Ethiopia Eritrea: 176).

Distribution

Known only from semidesert savanna at altitudes of 800-1000 m in the northern Rift Valley of Ethiopia; likely to occur in neighboring northern Somalia, Djibouti, and southern Eritrea.

Comment

Largen, 2001, Tropical Zool., 14: 337, commented on distribution. Largen and Spawls, 2010, Amph. Rept. Ethiopia Eritrea: 176.

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